"G. B. S." ON STRIKING.
In the course of ail interview published in "'The Sunday Chronicle," Mr. George Bernard Shaw says:— "What is this Direct Action that we hear so much of? Strikes. And what is a strike, after all? Just the old Oriental trick of starving on your enemy's doorstep until lie surrenders. What use is that here, in the West, where a man is rich, respected, and politically powerful in proportion to the number of people wao are starring on his doorstep? "A strike is not direct action; it Is direct inaction. Your children go without their dinners on the off-chance of your employer's children mucins short of strawberry jam five ye.i rs hence It is a mug's game, this striking. And even at that, what use is it unless it is powerfully controlled by a political organisation fnljy responsible to the community?"
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 7
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